Word: shortsightedness
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The authors of this letter place the words "Black Jewish relations" in quotation marks, and claim that no such relations exists or ever did exists. I wonder if they would have made such a claim in the 1960s when American Jews and Blacks marched and fought together during the heyday...
Affirmative action is seen as acceptable, even desirable, but only so long as it does not harm a single hair on a single white male head. Given the sweeping, long-term effects of past discrimination affirmative action under such strictures would be tantamount to no affirmative action at all, If...
"Baseball owners," Hap says, "are the toughest set of ignoramuses anyone could ever come up against. They always have been. Refreshingly dumb fellows: greedy, shortsighted and stupid. They created this job in 1921 only because, after the 1919 Black Sox scandal, the American people needed a symbol of complete authority...
But that change appears unlikely, because the media, in general, is shallow shortsighted in its interpretation of events. Instead of being the exception, the Olympic coverage America has received is the rule: one dimensionalism pervades everywhere throughout the world of mass media.
"It is shortsighted in terms of the United States' own economic interests and the world economy."